He recalled, “I was able to sort of mumble and free-associate some things, and Aaron would try to encourage me—‘That’s great! Let’s make a song out of it!’ And I would say, ‘There’s no song there.’ ” At one point, Tom urged his brother to think of his pain as creative fodder. “I said, ‘Matt, use this feeling and write about it,’ ” Tom told me. “He just looks at me with, like, anger in his eyes. ‘What do you think I’ve been fucking doing for the past twenty years? All I’ve been writing about is depression.’ ”
For a moment, it seemed as though the National might break up. Eight albums, world tours, twenty-odd years together—it had been a good run.
It's a terrible love and I'm walking with spiders
It's a terrible love and I'm walking in
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
Harry/Tom Riddle | Soulmates, Master of Death Harry Potter, Angst, Fluff and Angst, Character Death, and not death, Ambiguous/Open Ending, Canon Compliant
Once on the floor of a forest that's out of bounds, surrounded by people who will laugh instead of cry.
It's not how these things are supposed to go.
Hunger, Florence + the Machine
when the party's over, Billie Eilish
Walking on a String, Matt Berninger and Phoebe Bridgers
The National’s Matt Berninger Gives Update on TV Sitcom, Says It’s Called Das Apes
In 2014, Berninger and Besser moved to Los Angeles with their four-year-old daughter, Isla, and bought a bungalow in Venice, not far from the ocean. Tom came along, too, and started working out of a guesthouse in the back yard. The three of them were developing a television series based loosely on Tom’s film about the National, but fictionalized. “The pitch was a show not unlike ‘The Monkees’,…
Mistaken For Strangers - the ultimate rockumentary?
There are rockumentaries, and then there’s “Mistaken For Strangers,” a delightful, offbeat film about The National that makes ‘Spinal Tap’ look like an episode of ‘Downton Abbey.’
Tom Berninger, the lesser-known brother of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger, finds himself cast in the unfamiliar role of a roadie for the band’s world tour. Unfamiliar, of course, unless you consider slacking…
UNDER THE RADAR: The National and Phoebe Bridgers Share Video for New Song “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend”: Watch.
UNDER THE RADAR: The National and Phoebe Bridgers Share Video for New Song “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend”: Watch.
“The National are back with another new song from First Two Pages of Frankenstein. “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend” features Phoebe Bridgers, and it arrives with a new psychedelic music video, directed by Bridgers’ brother, Jackson, and starring Matt Berninger’s brother, Tom. The…
The National Freaks Out Phoebe Bridgers in ‘Your Mind Is Not Your Friend’ Video
[ad_1] The track, which features Bridgers, will appear on the band’s upcoming ‘First Two Pages of Frankenstein’ album. the national mat Berninger and his brother Tom have fun at the park and frustrate kids while running around a playground in the video for their new song, “Your Mind Is Not Your Friend”, which also features […]The National Freaks Out Phoebe Bridgers in ‘Your Mind Is Not Your…
hello! random question but where is the clip from of aaron and matt where aaron saying "he's a moron"? i only see screencaps but i can't find the video source. i would really appreciate if you know where i could find it!
Hi!!!! It’s from Mistaken For Strangers, the documentary made by Tom Berninger. Unfortunately I don’t think there’s a clip of that scene on youtube :( but I hope this was helpful! 🥰
Much like his songwriting heroes Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Tom Waits, Berninger understands that true misery can also be kind of funny. In collaboration with the artist Ragnar Kjartansson, the National once performed “Sorrow” for six consecutive hours, or approximately a hundred and eight times, at moma PS1, in Queens; the band later released the performance on nine clear vinyl records, titling the set “A Lot of Sorrow.”
gawd, i almost forgot about this. i love them so much
stumbled back on how i came to love the national as much as i do now. i was making fanmixes for my ocs and other people’s ocs on the rp forum i was on... and like 10 years ago i found this cover of bloodbuzz ohio by oh land while searching for songs and as always everytime i find a cover i want to listen to the og and i realised birdy’s terrible love was them as well and that’s how i ended up listening to the high violet album on repeat, later i also found out about exile vilify for portal 2, and that was it....
UNDER THE RADAR: The National Share Video for New Song “Eucalyptus”: Watch
UNDER THE RADAR: The National Share Video for New Song “Eucalyptus”: Watch
The National have shared another new song from their upcoming album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein. “Eucalyptus” comes with a music video directed by Chris Sgroi. The visual was shot at Long Pond by Sgroi and Matt Berninger’s brother, Tom.
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